Monday, 20 March 2017

Ding! Ding! Ding! Round Two!

The aerial and ground shots obtained by the Echo show a large section of a two-acre field in Hovefields, Wickford, has already been covered in asphalt.

Other parts of the field appear to have been dug up while huge piles of dry asphalt lie in wait ready to be laid down.

Our exclusive photos also show long fences have been installed - potentially to allow a number of pitches to be claimed by traveller families.

Yes, it's 'Dale Farm 2: The Return'...

The work is in clear breach of a High Court injunction obtained by Basildon Council last October after the authority spent millions evicting illegal settlers from the land and nearby Dale Farm in Crays Hill.

Residents fear dozens of families will soon move onto the site.

What, breaching a High Court injunction?! Why, it's almost as if they have no regard for the law of the land, or something...

6 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Breaching a High Court injunction is a criminal offence. Knock down the fencing, remove the asphalt (and use it to repair the disgraceful road surfaces in that area), seize and sell the caravans already there unless moved within 24 hours, and arrest anyone who obstructs those actions. Simple. The law is there. However, it appears the council are hesitant to take any action because (a) the proposed residents are an endangered species (or should be) and (b) none of the council members live there so they are not directly affected.Penseivat

Living in the area as I did some forty years ago and saw the already Dale Farm fiasco in full living colour, it is at the least an appalling indictment on the local council that having had the powers to do something even back then,that they sat on their collective very large backsides.That millions of pounds of taxpayers money later not only did they fail to clear up Dale Farm, the so called legal settlement never was legal, but they now are prepared to let this new development progress under their collective snouts and it will as the precedent has been set, yet a quick dawn visit by a couple of those large army bulldozers would solve the issue in a flash and what then could the "endangered" species do, but that would be to easy !